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Emptying the Notebook: Lobos should handle their ‘bigs’ downside

March 10, 2022 by Freelancertamal USA News
Emptying the Notebook: Lobos must address their 'bigs' problem

Nevada coach Steve Alford, left, and UNM Lobos coach Richard Pitino, proper, shake palms earlier than Wednesday’s Mountain West Tournament recreation. (Mike Sandoval/For the freelancertamal Journal)

Emptying the Notebook Unlike Tuesday Lobos run out of gas -LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Here are a number of further notes, quotes, movies and no matter different odds & ends I might empty out of the previous pocket book for the ultimate time this season after Wednesday’s 79-72 Lobos loss to Nevada within the Mountain West Tournament:

Paint issues…

Maybe there was no extra becoming means for the Lobos to finish this 2021-22 season than by having their most obtrusive deficiency uncovered for all to see heading into to offseason.

Nevada dominating the Lobos within the paint.

The ultimate stat line confirmed a 40-20 Nevada benefit in factors within the paint and a 40-30 rebounding benefit.

The dominance close to the rim was as a lot about UNM’s lack of huge man effectiveness on offense because it was in regards to the lack of succesful large males defenders (succesful consists of having the ability to defend the put up with out fouling).

“I thought we did a lot of good things in the paint,” Nevada coach Steve Alford stated. “I thought we handled the backboard the way we wanted to handle it.”

Alford additionally particularly famous that coming into the sport, they knew the paint was the Lobo weak point, which all Mountain West coaches mainly knew by a number of video games into league play in January.

“We thought we had an advantage in the paint,” Alford stated. “And that’s dicey because I think Mashburn and House do a great job of attacking the paint. But we really wanted to set our D up to where we made things hard for them and hopefully passing to their bigs more than shooting. That’s not being disrespectful to (UNM’s) bigs, it’s just we felt like if we had to give something up, I’d rather … I wanted those bigs to beat us, not the guards.”

Pitino after the loss stated he’s optimistic about what’s to come back at UNM, however there’s clearly work to do.

“Today, certainly we wanted a win. We wanted to go on a run,” stated Pitino after the 79-72 loss. “But you look at our roster, we’re clearly deficient at certain spots with what transpired this year.”

Entering the Mountain West Tournament, UNM averaged 28.6 factors within the paint per recreation — many from attacking guards Jaelen House and Jamal Mashburn, Jr., and little or no from large males scoring down low both in postups, one-on-ones or with dump offs from these attacking guards.

On the opposite finish, the Lobo opponents averaged 36.6 factors scored within the paint, typically having their means with scoring on the rim.

This play for Nevada exhibits A) what the Lobos need extra of subsequent season in the event that they get improved play from the bigs (or new bigs) and B) what they hope to cease opponents entrance doing so typically in the event that they get improved play from the bigs (or new bigs).

It illustrates the harmful weapon a very good decide and roll mixture could be, however you want each items, not solely the great guards.

As for the protection, you too can see how far behind UNM is on decide and roll protection if that is how open a take a look at the rim Warren Washington can get, leaving 6-foot-2 assist defender guard Ok.J. Jenkins able to select up a sloppy foul.

Points within the paint isn’t at all times a telling stat. But for the Lobos this season, lots of their worst or most painful losses coincided with that getting dominated within the paint:

• -34 (32-66) — L, Dec. 6 vs. New Mexico State
• -34 (20-54) — L, Jan. 8 vs. Utah State
• -24 (20-44) — L, Jan. 11 at UNLV
• -22 (20-42) — W, Nov. 20 vs. Montana State
• -22 (22-44) — L, Feb. 17 vs. CSU
• -20 (20-40) — L, Wednesday vs. Nevada
• -16 (22-38) — L, Jan. 1 at Nevada
• -16 (20-36) — L, Jan. 19 at Colorado State
• -16 (28-44) — L, Feb. 22 at Utah State
• -14 (28-42) — L, Dec. 19 vs. SMU
• -14 (16-30) — L, Jan. 31 at SDSU

Eight of the 11 video games listed above occurred in UNM’s 18 league video games (17 common season MW video games and vs. Nevada on Saturday).

The gamer…

Here’s the gamer I filed from the Thomas & Mack Center on Wednesday afternoon…

Nevada ends Lobos’ season at Mountain West tourney

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Lobo followers had been there once more. Just like previous occasions, their cheers…

A quantity to know: 1,107

Jaelen House scored 19 factors and Jamal Mashburn Jr. added 15 on Wednesday for a mixed 34 factors.

That brings the duo’s season whole as much as 1,107 factors, which is seventh finest in UNM historical past for a duo.

UNM’s all-time listing for high scoring duos appears like this:

• 1,400 (1986-87): Hunter Greene 740, Kelvin Scarborough 660
• 1,238 (2013-14): Cameron Bairstow 694, Kendall Williams 544
• 1,233 (2015-16): Brown 694, Williams 539
• 1,219 (1987-88): Charlie Thomas 613, Hunter Greene 606
• 1,126 (1993-94): Greg Brown 599, Marlow White 527
• 1,124 (1977-78): Marvin Johnson, Michael Cooper
• 1,107 (2021-22): Mashburn 582, House 525

He stated it

“I wouldn’t change anything about this year. I don’t hold any regrets. I think everything that we’ve been through and I have been through has been a learning experience. So we can only get better and keep moving forward.” — UNM guard Jamal Mashburn Jr.

Pep of their step…

The Lobos did begin robust on Wednesday morning.

Maybe the pep of their step had somewhat one thing to do with the pep rally stroll from the lodge (they stayed this week on the Mirage) to the bus earlier than heading over to the Thomas & Mack Center.

Crying foul

The Lobos and Wolf Pack had been whistled for 49 fouls on Wednesday.

The 26 fouls referred to as in opposition to UNM was second most this season (27 at Colorado on Nov. 11 was essentially the most).

We in all probability ought to have recognized one thing was up when there have been 4 fouls referred to as within the first 1:45 of the sport:

• 19:48 – offensive foul on UNM
• 19:40 – foul on UNM
• 19:19 – foul on Nevada
• 18:15 – foul on Nevada

Video highlights…

Here are the video highlights of the sport, as posted by the Mountain West Conference:

Postgame

No postgame video from the Journal’s YouTube web page after these event video games (the postgame arrange doesn’t actually permit for it). But here’s a hyperlink to the 2 postgame press conferences — Nevada first and the UNM Lobos session begins on the ** mark.

• Postgame press convention video

Mountain West “first round” historical past…

UNM’s loss on Wednesday brings the Lobos document within the “first round” of the Mountain West Tournament to 2-4.

The league considers the “first round” solely any recreation performed previous to the quarterfinals, which means seasons that began with the quarterfinals don’t have a “first round” of the event.

So, in 23 Mountain West Tournaments, there have been 16 “first rounds” and a few of these had been referred to as “opening rounds”.

The Paul Weir period supplied each of UNM’s opening spherical wins and one of many losses.

Here’s the UNM opening spherical breakdown:

• WINS: 2019, 2029
• LOSSES: 2007, 2015, 2021, 2022

As for the entire league, listed here are the “first round” standings in Mountain West historical past (you’ll be able to resolve what having an excellent document within the opening spherical means as a workforce is simply there if it didn’t qualify for a bye into the quarterfinals):

MW OPENING ROUND RECORDS
5-0 Utah State (1.000)
2-0 Boise State (1.000)
1-0 San Diego State (1.000)
3-1 Fresno State (.750)
3-1 UNLV (.750)
6-6 Air Force (.500)
2-2 Nevada (.500)
3-5 Colorado State (.375)
4-7 Wyoming (.364)
2-4 New Mexico (.333)
0-8 San Jose State (.000)

Attendance…

The introduced attendance for Wednesday’s recreation was … unannounced.

If the Mountain West posted the day’s attendance figures wherever, I didn’t see them and couldn’t discover them on the league’s website or any field scores.

But I do know Lobo followers had been as soon as once more one of the best fan base within the area for Wednesday’s three males’s video games, and that was with out the plenty who use Wednesday to journey fro New Mexico to Las Vegas (and who, sadly, received’t get to see UNM play once more this season).

House theft…

Jaelen House completed his first season with the Lobos with 68 steals, good for seventh most all-time in a season for a Lobo.

UNM single season steal leaders:
1. 84 – Hunter Greene (1986-87)
2. 80 – Kelvin Scarborough (1984-85)
3. 78 – Kelvin Scarborough (1986-87)
4. 77 – Phil Smith (1983-84)
5. 70 – Hunter Greene (1987-88)
6. 69 – Gabe Nava (1973-74)
7. 68 – Jaelen House (2021-22)
8. 66 – Charles Smith (1995-96)

Half the story…

The Lobos shot 52.0% (13-25) within the first half of Wednesday’s recreation.

The Lobos shot 30.3% (10-33) within the second half of Wednesday’s recreation.

Another quantity to know: 10

UNM hit 10 (of 27) 3-pointers on Wednesday. It was the primary time in 11 video games the Lobos hit 10 ore extra 3-pointers in a recreation.

Here are a few them…

And yet another…

‘Tis the season…

This time of yr, lots of people get pleasure from speculating that half the roster of their favourite workforce will switch and that when that occurs that would be the worst factor on the planet.

At the identical time, those self same followers additionally like speculating on who the transfers coming in can be to assist the workforce subsequent yr — one thing that may solely occur within the first place if some present gamers switch out to open up scholarships.

As for junior Jay Allen-Tovar, when one Lobo fan took to Twitter on Wednesday evening to counsel he’s placing his cash on the 6-foot-9 ahead leaving this system, Allen-Tovar had a reasonably concise response.

“You’ll lose it all,” he wrote on his Twitter feed.

Transfers are going to occur.

They ought to occur.

They’re an excellent factor for the participant and infrequently for the workforce, too.

Remind me once more the success ratio at UNM for transfers who got here in with a optimistic affect vs. transfers who left this system that harm the workforce?

So, let it play out.

I, for one, received’t be losing a lot time right here or on Twitter taking part in the hypothesis recreation. The gamers will tell us after they’ve determined to go away this system or not.

Twice was sufficient…

Usually, and in an ideal world, the convention event is the third time groups play one another in a season.

But with the logistics of an 11-team league taking part in an 18-game convention schedule, the maths doesn’t permit for each workforce to play one another twice within the common season, so a few groups each season see simply as soon as earlier than postseason play.

This season, the 2 groups schedule to play UNM simply as soon as had been Nevada and Boise State with San Diego State being an surprising third league foe the Lobos performed simply as soon as within the common season after COVID price the Aztecs a visit to freelancertamal.

What does all this must do with the Mountain West Tournament?

With the Lobos dropping to Nevada on Wednesday, it marked the primary time in almost 4 a long time they didn’t play a workforce 3 times.

UNM hoops’ SID Steve Kirkland had the word about it within the pre-tournament workforce notes, indicating the final time the Lobos didn’t play an opponent 3 times was the 1982-83 season, one yr earlier than the WAC Tournament started.

Even if the Lobos received, their quarterfinals opponent would have been Boise State and it could have taken till the semifinals in opposition to wither Wyoming or UNLV (each groups UNM beat this season) earlier than they’d get a 3rd crack at an opponent.

Plus/minus…

Here are the plus/minus numbers from Wednesday’s recreation:

NEW MEXICO
+6 Ok.J. Jenkins (24:53)
+5 Jaelen House (29:00)
+1 Jordan Arroyo (6:17)
-1 Jay Allen-Tovar (11:57)
-4 Jeremiah Francis III (2:10)
-6 Saquan Singleton (28:30)
-6 Sebastian Forsling (21:17)
-7 Javonte Johnson (38:24)
-8 Jamal Mashburn Jr. (31:07)
-15 Taryn Todd (6:25)

NEVADA
+10 Tre Coleman (34:33)
+8 Grant Sherfield (38:13)
+7 Will Baker (15:09)
+5 Kenan Blackshear (36:30)
+4 Alem Huseinovic (00:38)
+3 Desmond Cambridge Jr. (18:40)
+1 Daniel Foster (25:39)
-1 Ok.J. Hymes (5:42)
-2 Warren Washington (24:56)

Line ’em up…

The Lobos used 18 distinctive lineups on Wednesday, many out of necessity due to foul hassle, and Nevada trotted out 14 distinctive lineup combos.

Here’s a snapshot evaluate of how a number of the Lobos lineups carried out, beginning with the starters…

STARTING LINEUP
• Who: House/Mashburn/Singleton/Johnson/Allen-Tovar
• Point differential: 0 (8-8)
• Time on courtroom: 6:01
• NOTE: The starters didn’t get to play lengthy due to foul hassle, which was additionally the rationale the sport starters weren’t even the identical starters after halftime.

But when this group of 5 was on the ground, largely in opposition to Nevada’s beginning 5, they performed the Wolf Pack even, 8-8.

In simply six minutes, although, this group had 4 turnovers and scored simply 0.6734 factors per possession.

Those aren’t good numbers. Thankfully for UNM, Nevada’s starters had been unhealthy collectively for essentially the most half, too.

BEST LINEUP (take 1)
• Who: House/Mashburn/Jenkins/Johnson/Allen-Tovar
• Point differential: +5 (13-8)
• Time on courtroom: 5:13
• NOTE: At 1.3320 factors per possession and a team-best +5 scoring differential, this might need been one of the best lineup of the sport for the Lobos.

Unless it was this different one…

BEST LINEUP (take 2)
• Who: House/Jenkins/Singleton/Johnson/Allen-Tovar
• Point differential: +5 (6-1)
• Time on courtroom: 2:10
• NOTE: If not that lineup above, possibly this was one of the best lineup mixture of the evening.

It scored 1.3889 factors per possession and in 2:10 allowed only one made free throw to Nevada.

WORST LINEUP
• Who: Jenkins/Mashburn/Singleton/Johnson/Forsling
• Point differential: -7 (9-16)
• Time on courtroom: 6:53

Meanwhile, within the girls’s championship…

At the tip of a protracted day of video games Wednesday within the Thomas & Mack, UNLV’s girls’s basketball workforce did what high seeds are speculated to do: They beat the lesser workforce and closed the day by punching their ticket to the NCAA Tournament.

UNLV ends a 20-year NCAA Tournament drought.

Around the Mountain…

Back to the boys’s bracket…

There had been three video games within the Mountain West Tournament on Wednesday with 4 extra quarterfinal spherical video games approaching Thursday:

WEDNESDAY
• No. 8 Nevada 79, No. 9 New Mexico 72
• No. 7 Utah State 83, No. 10 Air Force 56
• No. 6 Fresno State 69, No. 11 San Jose State 67 (OT)

THURSDAY
• No. 8 Nevada vs. No. 1 Boise State, midday PT/1 p.m. MT
• No. 5 UNLV vs. No. 4 Wyoming, 2:30 p.m. PT/3:30 p.m. MT
• No. 7 Utah State vs. No. 2 Colorado State, 6 p.m. PT/7 p.m. MT
• No. 6 Fresno State vs. No. 3 San Diego State, 8:30 p.m. PT/9:30 p.m. MT

FRIDAY
• Semifinal: BSU/Nevada vs. Wyoming/UNLV, 6:30 PT/7:30 MT
• Semifinal: CSU/USU vs. SDSU/FS, 9 p.m. PT/10 p.m. MT

SATURDAY
• Championship, 3 p.m. PT/4 p.m. MT

Stats and stats…

Here are the postgame stats from Wednesday’s recreation: Nevada 79, New Mexico 72

And when you desire the digital model of the stats: Nevada 79, New Mexico 72

Grammer’ Guesses

Hey, the common season embarrassment is over. Maybe now I can get a few of these proper.

The Guesses went 2-1 on Wednesday, selecting the correct aspect of the purpose spreads within the Utah State/Air Force recreation and the Fresno State/San Jose State video games.

So, for the MW Tournament, I’m 2-1.

Until subsequent time…

While I hope to get again to the Thomas & Mack on Thursday after my different work obligations to look at a few of these MWC Tournament quarterfinal video games, I do know Wednesday was it for my Lobo hoops protection for the 2021-22 season.

I left the sector on Wednesday earlier than I might get an empty area image. Instead, I go away you this time with a tweet from late Tuesday evening after I left the sector lengthy after the UNM girls’s season had ended…

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